Orientation Reading

Required Reading

Please refer to http://www.harlaxton.ac.uk/academics/cbs/OrientationMaterials.cfm

Newspaper Article

• Daily Telegraph (national newspaper): leader article written in aftermath of planned and perpetrated terrorist attacks in Britain, 27 July 2005 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/3618632/Ten-core-values-of-the-British-identity.html
• The Guardian (national newspaper): article considering English and British identities in the context of the 2010 football World Cup, 28 June 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/28/england-identity-national-football

Political Comment

• Prime Minister Gordon Brown: speech on ‘Britishness’, January 2006: BBC report and video http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4611682.stm

Academic Analysis

• Krishan. Kumar, ‘English or British? The Question of English National Identity’, //The Making of English National Identity// (Cambridge University Press, 2003), chapter 1 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/71887/sample/9780521771887ws.pdf

Context and History

• 'The Making of the United Kingdom', Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey to Citizenship (The Stationery Office, Crown Copyright 2007), Chapter 1Excerpt reproduced with permission (pdf

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• The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England A fun 5 min 15 sec. webcast discussing the different elements that make up Britain, England, the U.K. and the Commonwealth.

Other Sources

• Guardian (national newspaper) editorial, January 2007 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/jan/24/labourleadership.britishidentity
• Report on speech by Jack Straw, Leader of the House of Commons, 30 April 2007 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1550114/United-by-story-of-Britains-road-to-freedom.html
• Daily Telegraph (national newspaper), comment, December 2008 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/janetdaley/3555154/We-dont-need-to-define-Britishness.html
• Observer (Sunday newspaper), article considering ‘Englishness’ in the city of Badford in the context of J.B. Priestly’s English Journey, 5 July 2009 http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/jul/05/bradford-englishness-jb-priestley. This book is in Harlaxton College Library shelved at 914.2 PRI.
• British Citizenship test (unofficial) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4099770.stm

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